Death And Life - Ayn Rand

Guruji (who is feeling alive since yesterday, guess why) sent me this quote:

"'It’s only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept 'human' mean the weakling, the fool, the rotter, the liar, the failure, the coward, the fraud, and to exile from the human race the hero, the thinker, the producer, the inventor, the strong, the purposeful, the pure—as if 'to feel' were human, but to think were not, as if to fail were human, but to succeed were not, as if corruption were human, but virtue were not—as if the premise of death were proper to man, but the premise of life were not." 

Thanks. I was feeling exactly the same thing. though I didn't put it in these words. What a lady.

Having said that, how come a person who feels that way leads a life of death?